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See a photo of the final demo piece on the event listing http://www.cmog.org/event/live-streamed-studio-demonstration-simone-cres... Watch as Simone Crestani demonstrates for his class, Developing Your Idea in Boro, which focused on using borosilicate glass to create many different kinds of objects

See a photo of the finished piece http://www.cmog.org/event/live-streamed-studio-demonstration-clare-belfrage Watch as Clare Belfrage demonstrates for her class, Line Drawings and More, which explores the crazy wonders of cane drawing, which involves “drawing” with fine glass lines onto glass forms

See photos of the finished pieces from this demo at http://www.cmog.org/event/live-streamed-studio-demonstration-william-gud... Watch as Bill Gudenrath demonstrates for his class, An In-Depth Introduction to Venetian Techniques, which provides students with a firm foundation in the basic movements

Jerry Wright, former designer and archivist for Corning Glass Works (now Corning Incorporated), reminisces about his time designing CorningWare and Pyrex products. He created an archive of Corning’s houseware products, which supported the System Analysis and Product Liability Defense division.

Artist Tom Patti was drawn to glass in the 1960s, while designing houses of inflatable plastic for the developing world. “I wanted to work with materials that I could open up and look at,” he says. Sheet glass, readily available and affordable, attracted him as a means to expand his vocabulary of

The History Channel awarded The Corning Museum of Glass a Save Our History grant to partner with Corning Community College and the High School Learning Center for "Stories from the Crystal City," a history project to preserve the memories of Corning-area glass factory workers. The program

This conversation is with Al Donnelly, former supervisor of consumer information for the Consumer Products division at Corning Incorporated. Donnelly speaks about his work at Corning in the 1960s to 1980s. He worked in the marketing division and helped produce the Corning World magazine. He also